[Risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy in surgery of esophageal atresia].

From the last 100 cases of esophageal atresia treated since october 1975, the authors emphasised the incidence of left or right recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. This incidence is about 20%. Most often, an unilateral palsy is asymptomatic, but in a few cases many complications have been reported. Therefore it is necessary to insist on the surgical and anatomic factors which could increase the risk of a nervous injury and the technics to prevent it.